A Journey Round My Room
A Journey Round My Room

Author: Xavier de Maistre

Publisher:

Published: 1871

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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In 1790, Xavier de Maistre was 27 years old, and a soldier in the army of the Sardinian Kingdom, which covered swathes of modern-day Northern Italy and Southern France. He was placed under house-arrest in Turin for fighting an illegal duel. It was during the 42 days of his confinement here that he wrote the manuscript that would become Voyage autour de ma chambre. Inspired by the works of Laurence Sterne, with their digressive and colloquial style, de Maistre decided to make the most of his sentence by recording an exploration of the room as a travel journal. de Maistre’s book imbues the tour of his chamber with great mythology and grand scale. As he wanders the few steps that it takes to circumnavigate the space, his mind spins off into the ether. It parodies the travel journals of the eighteenth-century (such as A Voyage Around the World by Louis de Bougainville, 1771), and could be read today as an early take on the modern vogue for “psychogeography” — each tiny thing that he encounters sends de Maistre into rhapsodies, and mundane journeys become magnificent voyages.

A Nocturnal Expedition Round My Room (Classic Reprint)
A Nocturnal Expedition Round My Room (Classic Reprint)

Author: Xavier De Maistre

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-19

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9780331422535

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Excerpt from A Nocturnal Expedition Round My Room I will confess, however, that I love solitude in large cities; but, unless I am compelled by serious causes, such as A journey round my room, I do not care to be a hermit except in the morning 5 in the evening, I like to see human faces again. The inconveniences of social life, and those of solitude, thus counteract each other, and these two modes of existence thus beautify one ano ther. The inconstancy and fatality of earthly affairs are such, however, that the vividness of the plea sures that I enjoyed in my new residence ought to have warned me of their probably short duration. The French Revolution, which was surging on all sides, had just overtopped the Alps, and was pouring down upon Italy. The first wave carried me to Bologna. Here, nevertheless, I still kept on my hermitage, into which I had all my furniture moved, to await happier times. For some years I had been an exile one fine morning I found myself without employment. After a whole year spent in seeing men and things I cared little for, and in wishing for things and men I could no longer see, I returned to Turin. It was necessary to take some definite step. I walked out from the Hotel de la Bonn: Femme, where I had put up, with the intention of giving up my little room, and selling my furniture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Journey Around My Room
A Journey Around My Room

Author: Xavier de Maistre

Publisher: Hersperus Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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What do you do when you find yourself imprisoned in your room for 6 weeks? Xavier de Maistre, a 27-year-old Frenchman found himself in this uneasy situation when he was arrested in Turin after a duel, in the Spring of 1790. But with only a butler and a dog for company, Xavier de Maistre managed to fill his time by embarking on a journey around his bedroom, later writing an account of what he had seen. Whether venturing from his bed to his sofa, or even to his mirror, he wears his "traveling outfit”--his favorite pink and blue pajamas. Out of his forced reclusion comes a captivating fantasy--a novel take on travel literature that would inspire many later writers, including Marcel Proust. This edition also contains de Maistre’s A Nocturnal Expedition around My Room. Xavier de Maistre was a military man, who supplemented his army career with short works of fiction.

The Shadow out of Time (時光幽影)
The Shadow out of Time (時光幽影)

Author: Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 689

ISBN-13:

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One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, "The Shadow Out of Time" is the tale of a professor of political economics that is thrown into a mind-shattering journey through time and space, while his body is held hostage by an alien mind. Horrified and panic-stricken by the implications of his experiences, he hopes against all reason and evidence that he has merely lost his mind.

A Journey Round My Room: Followed by a Nocturnal Expedition in the Same Regions
A Journey Round My Room: Followed by a Nocturnal Expedition in the Same Regions

Author: Xavier De Maistre

Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press

Published: 2018-11-10

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9780353265608

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A Nocturnal Expedition Round My Room - Primary Source Edition
A Nocturnal Expedition Round My Room - Primary Source Edition

Author: Xavier De Maistre

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2014-03-12

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9781294787204

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